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How to Give Good at Christmas - my Personal Recommendation

It's my absolute pleasure to recommend you consider a UNICEF gift this Christmas. A gift that helps a vulnerable child is a beautiful way to celebrate families getting together during the Chirstmas holiday season. And I love the name for this initiative: Give Good gifts.

Sometimes it's tricky to choose the right gift for people we know. And by the way, don't they already have enough stuff?? And what about when long-lost cousins have accepted a Christmas invite, or your kid’s teacher needs an urgent Kris Kringle? I have sometimes used charity gifts for corporate Christmas presents also.

“Give Good” this Christmas with a gift that says you care – in more ways than one.

UNICEF gifts are delivered to the children who need it most. The gifts include polio vaccines, nutritional health supplements, educational tools, baby weigh scales, water pumps, bicycles for UNICEF field and community workers, emergency shelter and vital community infrastructure.

When you buy a Give Good gift, a gift card is sent to your intended recipient, outlining what you have sent and how it’s destined to help children in need. After all, what could be more impressive and worthy than giving the gift of good health, education or fulfilling the immediate needs of children in crisis situations?

Below is a selection of Good Gifts from UNICEF to get you started this Christmas.

Polio vaccinations for 200 children, $34Enough Stuff? Give Good. Help children grow up healthy and strong. This Christmas give a UNICEF Inspired Gift that will vaccinate 200 children against polio – a deadly disease on the verge of eradication.

Children’s educational story books, $11Enough Stuff? Give Good. This Christmas give a UNICEF Inspired Gift that will delight and surprise its real recipient – a child, who, with your help, will be given story books as part of a basic education and step up out of poverty.

Baby weight scale, $35Enough Stuff? Give Good. Give a UNICEF Inspired Gift to help identify underweight babies so our field workers can provide the nutritional advice and supplement children need to grow healthy and strong.

Therapeutic food supplement, $63Enough Stuff? Give Good. While enjoying your festive spread, give yourself a pat on the back for making sure Saamatou, 7 months, has the therapeutic food supplement she needs to go from being malnourished to strong and healthy. Your UNICEF gift buys 150 sachets of therapeutic food supplements.

School-in-a-Box, $220Enough Stuff? Give Good. Deliver education to an entire classroom, the School-in-a-Box is a portable education kits of resources to be used by children in times of crisis and conflict. Your UNICEF Inspired Gift can help children escaping violence in Syria keep at their studies.

Water Pump $466Enough Stuff? Give Good. Deliver a water pump and help prevent disease to save children’s lives. Clean water can improve a community’s ability to keep disease at bay. A water source in a community can aid agriculture and the growing of nutritious crops. Your UNICEF Inspired Gift can bring water close to home and reduce the hours children cart water to their families.

Give Good Life Pack, $108Help UNICEF give 10 children the best possible start in life by providing them with food, protecting them from disease, equipping them with pencils and exercise books for school and providing access to clean drinking water. They’ll also be able to enjoy themselves as the pack contains a football. Give Good and deliver this on behalf of a family in your circle that would appreciate saying it made a difference this Christmas.

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Michelle's family consists of 4 kids, 1 dog and a husband (although he was the only family member not to make it into her blog title). In a past life she was a union organiser, worked in a domestic violence agency and studied Arts/Law. For relaxation she reads, preferably while comfortably seated at a cafe.

Michelle is Australian but also a citizen of the United States where she has lived previously. She has recently returned with her family to California this year after spending the past six years in her home town of Sydney. While finding change exciting, Michelle says packing up her life and starting again was just a little daunting. We're sure it will provide fertile ground for new writing material.

Michelle likes to say that her family comes with a dash of Aspergers, along with generous servings of humour, intelligence and creativity. While this quirk may bring certain challenges, it makes life just that little bit more interesting. Her home is television-free but somehow her children seem to manage to wrangle indecent amounts of screen time at every opportunity.